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    "differentFrom": "Parallel Antithesis - Nāṣif et al. (2012) classify Colour Contrast as a subtype of Parallel Antithesis, the broader device of opposition between paired meanings; Colour Contrast is the specific case where the opposing terms are colour words.[1]\nANTITH: Antithesis of two terms - ʿAkkāwī (1996) relates Colour Contrast - particularly in its al-mukhālif subtype — to al-ṭibāq, the opposition between two contrary terms.[2]",
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      "arabic": "خُضْرَةُ الصُّدْغِ وَالسَّوَادُ مِنَ الْعَيْنِ بِبَيَاضِ الْمَشِيبِ قَدْ أَوْرَثَانِي وَاحْمِرَارُ الدُّمُوعِ مُصْفَرُّ خَدِّي كُلُّ ذَا مِنْ تَلَوُّنَاتِ الزَّمَانِ",
      "english": "The verdant richness of his locks, the blackness of his eyes, Have marked me with the whiteness of old age; The redness of my tearful eyes has yellowed my cheeks — And all because Fate has a way of changing colour!",
      "explanation": "The verse by ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Mawṣilī coordinates a sequence of colour expressions — khuḍrat al-ṣudgh, al-sawād, bayāḍ al-mashīb, iḥmirār al-dumūʿ, and muṣfarru khaddī. The colours are not presented principally as antonymic pairs; rather, they organise a sequence involving physical appearance, ageing, emotion, and the changing conditions of time, culminating in talawwunāt al-zamān (“the changing colours of time”).[3]"
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      "english": "They raised white banners for peace, carried green branches for hope, and hung red ribbons in remembrance of sacrifice.",
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